The Naked Soul of Iceberg Slim
This is the gritty truth, the life of a hustler in south side Chicago where the only characters are those who con and those who get conned.
In the preface, Slim says it best, “In this book, I will take you, the reader, with me into the secret inner world of the pimp.” An immersive experience unlike anything before it, Pimp would go on to sell millions of copies, with ...
This book is for all people to know how you can miss your calling of what you are here for. To do your gift you have to be who you are. The author wrote this book to help kids stop killing each other - that is not cool.
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Tells the story of Otis Tilson, a transvestite living a life of pimping and tricking amid the violence and crime of the homosexual underground.
Straight from the source: Iceberg Slim gives unprecedented insight into his incredible life and mind in this second collection of rare, explicit, interviews. Iceberg Slim is infamous as a pimp.
This is the original mafia story that spawned all the rest—the story of Chicago’s ruthless and tireless mafia.
From Iceberg Slim’s Pimp to Donald Goines’s Never Die Alone, the thread that tied all of these books together—and made them distinct from the majority of American pulp—was an unfailing veneration of black masculinity.
Originally published in 1973, "Black Players" was the first book to undertake a thorough examination of the urban pimp culture.